Digitization PEN: Partnership to the New England Vascular Plant Network (NEVP) for the Environmental Management and Monitoring Alliance (EMMA)

草本植物是压榨和干燥的植物标本的集合，为了解过去提供了窗口。它们告诉我们当时有哪些植物，这些植物在哪里，以及植物什么时候出现。有了这些信息，我们可以追踪随着时间的推移而发生的变化，例如野花和林木返回以前耕种的土地，以及入侵植物物种的引入和传播。标本馆标本也记录了过去的季节性事件，如野花何时盛开，何时树木在春天落叶，何时秋天落叶。草本植物中储存的信息可以帮助我们了解过去的环境变化，也可以预测和准备未来的变化。该项目将允许哈德逊河谷环境监测和管理联盟(EMMA)的六名成员将他们的藏品数字化。让世界上任何人都可以在网上获得图像和标签信息，将无可估量地增加Emma Herbaria的研究和社会价值。这些图像和信息将帮助联盟解决哈德逊河谷生态系统健康面临的紧迫威胁，包括气候变化、入侵物种、栖息地丧失和碎片化，以及鹿的过度繁殖。艾玛植物标本馆的信息还将有助于哈德逊山谷以外的许多其他项目。参与该项目的艾玛植物植物包括福特汉姆大学的路易斯·考尔德中心、海斯特德植物园、E.N.Huyck保护区、Mohonk保护区、佩斯大学和瓦萨学院。他们将与现有的新英格兰血管植物网络(NEVP)合作。大约22,250个标本将被数字化，其中约13,550个来自纽约州。该项目将为佩斯和瓦萨的本科生提供培训机会，他们将现场数字化这些草本植物的标本。一个旅行团队将在其他四个草药基地进行大部分数字化工作。这将使NEVP在纽约的样本增加27%。图像和数据将通过东北草药联盟门户网站和iDigBio.org提供。除了植物标本馆的数据，研究人员还将通过森林生态系统监测合作平台和EMMA网站获得特定地点的天气和物候数据。物候学数据也将通过美国-国家物候学网络获得。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Herbaria, collections of pressed and dried plant specimens, provide windows into the past. They tell us what kinds of plants were present, where those plants were, and when the plants were there. With this information we can track changes over time, such as the return of wildflowers and forest trees to previously farmed land, and the introduction and spread of invasive plant species. Herbarium specimens are also records of past seasonal events such as when wildflowers bloomed, and when trees leafed out in the spring and dropped their leaves in fall. The information stored in herbaria can help us understand past environmental changes, and also to predict and prepare for future change. This project will allow six members of the Hudson Valley Environmental Monitoring and Management Alliance (EMMA) to digitize their collections. Making the images and label information available online to anyone in the world will immeasurably increase the research and societal value of the EMMA herbaria. The images and information will help the Alliance address urgent threats to ecosystem health in the Hudson Valley, including climate change, invasive species, habitat loss and fragmentation, and deer overabundance. The EMMA herbarium information will also contribute to numerous other projects with scopes beyond the Hudson Valley.The EMMA herbaria participating in this project are the Louis Calder Center of Fordham University, the Highstead Arboretum, the E.N. Huyck Preserve, the Mohonk Preserve, Pace University, and Vassar College. Together, they will partner with the existing New England Vascular Plant Network (NEVP). Approximately 22,250 specimens will be digitized, of which around 13,550 are from New York State. This project will provide training opportunities for undergraduate students at Pace and Vassar, who will digitize specimens from those herbaria onsite. A travelling team will carry out most of the digitization work at the other four herbaria. This will increase the NEVP’s New York specimens by 27%. Images and data will be made available through the Consortium of Northeastern Herbaria portal and through iDigBio.org. Along with the herbarium data, site-specific weather and phenology data will be available to researchers through the Forest Ecosystems Monitoring Cooperative platform and the EMMA website. Phenology data will also be available through the USA-National Phenology Network.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.